Intensity Quotations

'Twilight' passed like a fever through the sophisticated reader and the unsophisticated reader alike. People devoured those books in single sittings, over weekends, with a kind of raw intensity that is rare.

The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.

When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of the intensity of this envy of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, as well as of breasts and of the act of suckling.

In comparing therefore the value of the same commodity, at different periods of time, the consideration of the comparative skill and intensity of labour, required for that particular commodity, needs scarcely to be attended to, as it operates equally at both periods.

By intensity of hatred, nations create in themselves the character that they imagine in their enemies. Hence it comes that all passionate conflicts result in an interchange of characteristics. We might say with truth, those who hate open a door by which their enemies enter and make their own the secret places of the heart.

Intensity like signal strength will generally fall off with distance from the source, although it also depends on the local conditions and the pathway from the source to the point.

The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.

I have fond memories of the development work that led to a lot of great things in modern gaming - the intensity of the first person experience, LAN and Internet play, game mods, and so on.

It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment.

Maybe I've just been incredibly fortunate, but there's a level of dedication, devotion, intensity and seriousness around me every day.

Hire for passion and intensity; there is training for everything else.

After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained.

Structure your cross-training appropriately by alternating the intensity of your sessions so you work, recover, work, recover.

Seeing the intensity and power she brings to the game, it's hard to imagine her being anything but single-minded in pursuing tennis. But Serena Williams has other passions, too. In fact, there doesn't seem to be enough time in the day, week or month for one of the world's most gifted athletes to chase her many interests.

There was a point after the whole intensity of the Clash finally subsided when I just found that painting grounded me in a way that music didn't.

CrossFit is all about constantly-varied, high-intensity movements. And to do these movements, you have to have a certified coach to take you through this - or any type of physical activity.

Intensity is so much more becoming in the young.

I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.

From beginning to end it's about keeping the energy and the intensity of the story and not doing too much and not doing too little, but just enough so people stay interested and stay involved in the characters.

A risk for a poet-novelist is imbalance: The poems can flatten into prose or lose their intensity of focus; the novels can stall amid lofty writing or literary preciousness and ignore the engine of plot and character.

Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.

Anything I do, I spend a lot of time. I do it with passion and intensity. I want to be in charge.

But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.

In France, I discovered that I love writing in the city. There's such an intensity to being in the city that matches the intensity of what you're experiencing in your head.

I think actually what keeps the intensity manageable - it's a little counterintuitive - is that it's changing all the time. Every week is different for me.

I suppose I'm really interested in theatre that provides an intensity of experience on another level.

That got me thinking. Bon Jovi kills in Jersey. Just kills. We did Atlantic City this past winter and man, you wouldn't believe the intensity in that crowd. Can I just talk for a minute about how amazingly hot Heather is?

When I came from horizontal vertical straight all old stuff then suddenly I go also again in curved lines. And there I submit to changes in the intensity of my hand leading a tool, you see.

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.

Honestly, I got the best of both worlds: groove of New Orleans meets the intensity of Texas. That's the best education I could have, the best experiences I could have.

I have lived my whole life with high intensity.

Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.

Once I go on stage, the atmosphere is totally theatrical. The greater the illusion, the greater the intensity of the excitement it creates.

The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.

I hate doing Tabatas - you do whatever you want at high intensity for 20 seconds, and then get a 10 second break and you repeat that for 8 minutes. So you can do jumping jacks for 20 seconds, you can do sprints for 20 seconds, etc. It's supposed to help you get your endurance up really fast.

Games bring another level out in you. There is no way you can train to the same intensity when you are playing a game. It is just impossible. Your head won't allow you to do it. Because the adrenalin of a game and the importance of it steps it up to another level.

I think the first little jolt I got was reading Gerard Manley Hopkins - I liked other poems... but Hopkins was kind of electric for me - he changed the rules with speech, and the whole intensity of the language was there and so on.

I train about six days a week. I'm training at the same intensity as I did when I was playing football. I've done it for my entire life, and I love it.

Murray definitely called us out. So, we played with more intensity tonight.

I was still pleased with our guys. Mount Pleasant comes in with an intensity our guys don't normally see. We played hard despite the score and we learned a lot tonight.

I was fired up. I told them to go out and play with intensity and that's what they did.

On the floor and the vault, I think we're performing at a championship level, not only in terms of performance but in our enthusiasm and intensity as well. We just need to do the same on the bars and beam.

Navy is a very physical team that is extremely well-coached. We knew they were going to go at us hard for the full seven minutes. Our guys didn't match their intensity and effort.

NCAR is now embarking on a focused series of computer experiments capable of resolving thunderstorms and the details of tropical cyclones, ... The results will help explain the observed intensity changes and extend them to realistic climate change scenarios.

I was surprised by their defensive intensity and how fast they brought the ball up. But this was one of our best seasons. I'm blessed to have such a good team. These young ladies, win, lose or draw, are friends. The chemistry is unbelievable. Whether they play or not, they're the same. We're a tight group.

I was really pleased with the way we played. I was glad to see that our intensity was there for the whole game.

I was really proud of our intensity on the defensive end. We talked about three things: playing with intensity, playing with passion and playing with heart.

If we don?t match their intensity and how hard they play, it?s going to be very tough to win the game.

I was pleased with how we played. We handled them. We played hard; most everybody that got in played hard. That's two games in a row with that intensity - that's good.

No. 1, we knew we didn't come out of the dressing room Friday night the way we needed to. We didn't match Mankato's intensity Friday. I thought we did that tonight.

Noah is incredible. Usually kids that are that big, even if they're that athletic, they don't have the ability to play every possession at the intensity level that he does. I don't know many guards that can do that, but he does that at his size. That's what makes him unique.

I would be surprised if there are no discussions. But the intensity and fruitfulness of the talks will depend on how Jackson writes his findings of fact. He would have to give each side something to worry about.

We had awesome focus and intensity. If we could do that for 40 minutes, we could beat any team in the country. Cal?s freshmen are amazing, but our focus and intensity made the difference.

Some nights she's on and she can win you a ballgame, and sometimes she's not on and she can lose you a ballgame. Tonight she was on. Tonight she played with extreme emotion and intensity and passion for the game, and I was very proud of her effort.

One reason to come to Port Elizabeth was because it was nice to come to a so-called quieter place. To prepare at our own pace without people looking over our shoulder and instead to build intensity from within our own camp.

No one ever saw it from that point of view. Jerry says Michael works with the intensity of a bomb squad. That's absolutely true.

One of the things Bode is really exceptional at is bringing intensity to big events. They bring out his best. I think that's what you're going to see. He'll bring something special and extraordinary, based on what he's done in the past.

More than anything, the defensive intensity has been there. We've had a couple of games where it hasn't been there, but we learned a lesson from those games versus the ones it has been there. We've seen the difference in what we're able to accomplish when we play good defense.

Nobody was concerned with the intensity of ... We're used to hurricanes.

Nobody works harder than him, that's for sure. Just the way he prepares for the game. His intensity level is above and beyond what everybody else's is. He really puts everything into it.

Needless to say, we feel a heck of a lot better than we did after the Southern Cal game the other night. I thought we were really active defensively in the first half. If we had been flying around and having that intensity last Wednesday, the outcome would have been a lot better.

Now that the second round is here, I think the intensity is going to pick up.

Now that the second round is here, I think the intensity is going to pick up. Guys are a week into spring training basically, so I think it's going to be a little more exciting, a little more fun.

Peter is all business. At this time of year, the emotion is all in the players. It's all in your locker room. It doesn't come from the coach. The intensity and the emotion all come from the players.

Obviously I'm a little biased but I think he's the best player in the conference. He's been so important because he brings such intensity and work ethic, and he automatically draws a double.

Obviously, this is a very disappointing loss. We felt we had a chance to win this game, but they executed better than we did down the stretch. We battled, we fought, this was a playoff atmosphere. We wish we would have been able to match their intensity down the stretch, but we didn't. They were in the bounce-back mode and they bounced back.

Never in my wildest imagination would I have figured this, but we played every game to this intensity level.

Right now, he'd be the favorite for that job. He's done that job before. Defensively, he can play all three positions. His professionalism and intensity fit the makeup and personality of our team.

If we keep our intensity up in the next month, I think you will see some really good things from them.

I'd like to keep up my intensity and technique a little better. Today, I felt like I kind of took a step backwards.

I'd like to hope so. But for that to happen, we've got to continue to come out with the intensity we've shown so far. And I believe we will.

I'd like to hope so. But in order for that to happen, we have to continue to come out here every day and play with the same type of intensity that we have played with. And we will get to that point.

I didn't want to do the runny noses and hot ears. What I really liked was neonatology -- the little preemies and the intensity of their care. I loved intensive care, really sick people.

I did see a lot of good things in the game. Everybody grew up a little bit, and we played at a higher level than we have been, both in intensity and execution. We just got wore out and lost our cool in the fourth quarter. Other than that, I thought we hung in there pretty well.

I did not think our intensity level was what it should be.

I didn't like our lack of intensity in the first half. We can't let other teams get that far ahead on us. We've got to play with intensity the whole way.

I don't know where we were defensively. I don't think we've given up 75 points to anyone all year. I think the girls were a little bit nervous and shell-shocked. They were prepared to defend everything we saw tonight, but I was disappointed with our defensive intensity and our offensive execution.

I don't know what happened. We needed to pick up the intensity on defense. I was pretty upset when I had to call that timeout early in the third because we had four people standing there watching the ball go down the court. I had no idea that at this time in the season conditioning would be a problem. It was a matter of desire and intimidation that decided this game.

If we play like this the rest of the way, we'll be in good shape. We had good intensity and were physical. It wasn't easy. The guys worked their butts off.

If we play with the same intensity we have been, it should be a good game Saturday night.

If they lose the game, they run a lot of sprints. Most of the time they come back and win. It's an intensity thing for our first group.

We needed a little time to warm up, ... After the first game, we warmed up. We were a lot more intense and we were on our game and we were moving. We just got warmed up and got going, and the intensity was beautiful.

Last year's game greatly motivated us. We knew our offense was good enough to win. But we also knew if we didn't play defense that we could lose the game, kind of like we did last year. We picked up the defense, picked up the intensity and took the win.

Love is a component of many different things - the baggage you bring, the moment, what you need in your life, seeing someone as a portal for understanding everything, and all the intensity that brings. It's not something to count on and act like it's a stable thing.

We're not coming out at halftime with the intensity we need.

We made a lot of mistakes, but the hustle and the intensity was the best I've seen all year. We were down 13 (late in the third quarter) and for us to come back on that team and actually take a lead is a testimony to our desire.

We need to pick up our intensity in practices, now, to get ready. We've hit a plateau right now, so we've got to reach another peak.

We're just going to have to make sure that our defense and intensity are there. We have to understand what we need to do defensively and help each other out, and hopefully we'll be able to stop them.

We're glad to be back in the playoffs. I've noticed a great intensity in them and a lot smiles too. They want to compete and they're ready.

'm really proud of 'Sad, Sad World' because it manages to state a very complex paradox of an emotion that I experienced when I had children, which is this great happiness and this great intensity, but with that intensity comes a deeper understanding of the world.

(Sioux Falls) picked up their intensity on defense, caused some turnovers, and we just didn't get anything out of our offense.

Sixteen and oh is definitely a possibility. But our focus is on the next game. We've picked up our intensity on the defensive end.

Since the losses, the intensity has picked up a little more. I guess we're not getting away with as much now. She's gone back to the old ways of being tough, really.

My intensity level and my mindset was at a different level tonight, ... That's where I've been trying to get to the entire season and I finally made it.

Maybe we just weren't prepared for the intensity they were going to bring. But we'll be ready for them (tonight). We'll be a different team.

Shane had a great match and beat a guy whose style was totally different than what Shane tries to do. I have been pleased with Shane?s focus and his ability to take his intensity to a new level every match, every session.

She might be a freshman in class but not on the basketball floor. She plays with the same intensity that any upperclassmen does.

She just makes other kids shoot the ball differently. She leaves her feet a lot, so we thought we could pump fake and go by her. But you know with that big body coming at you and when you're 16-years-old, it's hard to remember sometimes. They came out with a little more intensity that we anticipated.

She is really starting to make her mark on the national scene. She is a very determined person. Her intensity can be her strength and her weakness sometimes. Intensity is a great thing, but it doesn't have to be 24-7. I try to help her keep everything in perspective.

She played with a little more intensity tonight. She felt a little more comfortable on the court and got a lot of open looks at the basket.